Misdiagnosed as Crazy: When Lyme Disease Hides Behind PANDAS, OCD & Depression

What if the depression, OCD, or "mental breakdown" a doctor diagnosed was actually a tick-borne infection attacking the brain?In this episode of Your Health Reclaimed, Dr. Brad sits down with Dr. Gary Kaplan — founder and medical director of the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine and a clinical associate professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine — for a candid look at why so many "treatment-resistant" chronic illness and psychiatric cases are actually undiagnosed neuroinflammatory disease.🎯 What You'll Discover:✅ Why Borrelia ("official" Lyme) is often the smallest problem compared to Bartonella, Babesia & Anaplasma✅ How a leaky gut convinces your immune system that ordinary food is the enemy — and why that creates dozens of false "food allergies"✅ The real case of a teenager hospitalized and medicated for years before anyone tested her for Lyme and PANDAS✅ Why standard LabCorp/Quest tick-borne panels miss most active infections✅ How therapeutic plasma exchange is helping slow Alzheimer's progression — including in Dr. Kaplan's own wife✅ Why insurance, not the medical literature, is quietly deciding what your doctor is "allowed" to consider💡 Key Topics Covered:Epigenetics — why only a fraction of people with a genetic risk ever get sickThe leaky gut → autoimmune → "it's all in your head" pipelineFluid-transfer myths: how tick-borne illness actually spreadsWhy a 2-hour intake can find what another round of labs won'tFull remission cases in Crohn's and celiac disease⏱️ Episode Timestamps:00:00 – Meet Dr. Gary Kaplan & his approach to neuroinflammatory disease02:05 – Epigenetics: why genes aren't your destiny03:07 – Leaky gut and the truth about food "allergies"07:17 – Healing Crohn's and celiac disease at the root08:18 – Gut-healing research and its surprising link to autism symptoms09:29 – When depression was actually undiagnosed celiac disease11:48 – Bartonella, Babesia, Anaplasma & the co-infections doctors miss17:21 – Why a 2-hour intake beats another round of labs20:53 – Misdiagnosed for years: one teenager's PANDAS story23:31 – Therapeutic plasma exchange & Dr. Kaplan's wife's Alzheimer's journey26:08 – How insurance is reshaping what doctors are allowed to treat✨ If you've been told it's "all in your head," this episode shows why that's almost never the full story — and what to ask your own doctor instead.🎧 Now streaming on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Follow & Connect with Dr. Brad:📲 Instagram: @healthfullyu🌐 Website: healthfullyu.com▶️ YouTube: Your Health ReclaimedFollow & Connect with Dr. Gary Kaplan:🌐 Website: kaplanclinic.com/provider/gary-kaplan-d-o📲 Instagram: @kaplan_clinic📘 Facebook: facebook.com/KaplanCenterforIntegrativeMedicineTopics Covered:Lyme disease, Bartonella, Babesia, tick-borne illness, PANDAS, leaky gut, functional medicine, integrative medicine, chronic illness, neuroinflammation, autoimmune encephalitis, Alzheimer's treatment, Gary Kaplan, Kaplan Center, Georgetown medicine